Chapter 123: A Bunch of Strange Things
In the past twenty-seven years, in addition to muttering Shen Mei's name, he would only giggle, sometimes he would suddenly go crazy, and he would open his mouth to bite people, his parents were afraid that he would cause trouble, so they bought an iron chain and locked him in the house, and then his parents died, and the neighbors saw that he was lonely and pitiful, so they took care of him.
But he didn't expect that Xu Xiongfeng suddenly woke up five days ago, he spoke and did things very clearly, and his madness seemed to have been completely cured, so the neighbor who took care of him released him.
Xu Xiongfeng told the people around him that in the past 20 years, he has been like a dream, a very sweet dream. In the dream, he and Shen Mei lived together very happily, they gave birth to two sons, and when the eldest son was six years old, his parents also came, but the fly in the ointment was that he couldn't see Shen Mei's face clearly, and then he kept asking his neighbor Shen Mei's whereabouts. ”
Shen Yufeng glanced at us slowly, and said: "His neighbor heard it very strangely, because according to the time, Xu Xiongfeng's parents did die of overwork seven years after he went crazy, but the kind neighbors did not tell him that Shen Mei died more than twenty years ago, but only said that she went to the city with her man, and it is said that she lived a very happy life."
Xu Xiongfeng sighed, and said that as long as she was happy, his face still couldn't stop gloomy, and he seemed to prefer to indulge in that dream forever and never wake up.
Then his life began to be normal, after worshipping his parents, Xu Xiongfeng washed and cooked, and rushed to help the neighbors carry things. Everyone said that he was very happy at that time, full of energy, very likable, and some even planned to introduce Widow Zhang to him as a daughter-in-law in the east of the town.
"But I didn't expect him to think so much that he actually committed suicide by jumping off the building!"
"What's so strange, there is no impermeable wall in the world at all, it should be Xu Xiongfeng who passed through some pipes and learned about Shen Mei's death, and suddenly felt that there was nothing to love, so he simply died." I pouted.
"I'll use your words in his death report, but there's something strange about him." Shen Yufeng frowned and continued: "According to the neighbors who live next to Xu Xiongfeng, some strange sounds are always heard at night, like a woman's heavy gasp, and like a few people whispering.
And what he said before he died was also puzzling, and he shouted at his neighbors, 'I finally see her!' She's dead, she's dead......
Then Xu Xiongfeng said, "She died so miserably! No wonder for more than 20 years, she never let me see her clearly, it turned out that she was afraid of scaring me, she was so stupid...... In fact, no matter what she becomes, I still love her...... I'm going to stay with her, and I'm going to go down with her......
Then he pushed his neighbor away and jumped from the building. Hey, Sayo, what are your thoughts on this? ”
Shen Xue and Xu Lu, the two cowards, were already frightened and leaned together, and I also listened to a chill, especially Xu Xiongfeng's words when he was dying.
From the literal interpretation of that passage, it can be judged that he has always been with Shen Mei's ghost, and has children, male farmers and female weavers, but he can't see the appearance of his loved one until the night before he committed suicide.
The thought of someone living with a female ghost with an open mouth, a pale face, and a hanging tongue for decades, although I knew that it was probably just Xu Xiongfeng's imagination, I still couldn't stop my scalp tingling.
But it was five days ago......
Just now, the ancestor of the Shen family also mentioned that the bronze lion in his yard became lowered and looked at the ground five days ago, and Xu Xiongfeng woke up five days ago, and there are those dead fish all over the yard, although there is no evidence, I still vaguely feel that there is some inevitable connection between the three that ordinary people can't see.
To find a breakthrough, I focused my eyes on the only person in the room who might know something.
"Light snow." I grinned and endured the numbness and shouted, "Why did those people scold your dad just now? ”
"Why am I telling you? I don't know you well. ”
Shen Xue glared at me.
"I just asked for Shen Ke. Shen Ke, that guy is familiar enough with you, right? I asked in a low voice.
"Me? I don't ...... at all Oops......"
As soon as Shen Ke was about to protest, I kicked him hard from under the table.
Then I smiled and said, "Come, tell your brother Shen everything you know." Hehe, of course, this sentence is also what I said on behalf of your brother Shen. ”
Suddenly, everyone in the hall shuddered.
Shen Xue touched the goosebumps on her arms vigorously, and said loudly: "Please don't say it!" The flesh is numb, I confess to be lenient! ”
When it came to the topic, her face became slightly serious, and she said, "It's because of the fountain!" Shen Ke and Sixth Uncle should know that my father went to England to study when he was young, so he didn't believe in the Shen family at all, saying that it was superstition, and he kept muttering to the old ancestor that the things in the Shen family's mansion must not be touched at all, and so on, he was very dissatisfied, and he could even be regarded as sneering.
"In addition, my father quarreled with my ancestor last month over the Shen family's real estate, and my father became very angry after that, and then he took matters into his own hands and decided to build the pool in the courtyard where he lived into a fashionable fountain."
"Didn't anyone stop that fountain when it was repaired?" I'm a little convinced.
Shen Ke shook his head and said: "Impossible, although we are all members of the Shen family, each courtyard has formed a small clan, and there is very little contact with each other, and the place where the sixth uncle lives is close to the gate, as long as it is not so blatant, no one will generally care about what you are doing over there." ”
Shen Xue nodded, and then said: "Just like he said, the fountain was repaired five days ago, and my father felt that the copper lion in the middle was very eye-catching, so he asked people to pull it to the town with a car and sell it as scrap copper, but since five days ago, the koi in all the courtyards of the Shen family's mansion began to die continuously, and after finding experts to check the water quality in the pool, they couldn't find any problems."
Then, someone found out that my father had changed the yard without authorization, and those unreasonable relatives all came to my father to make trouble. said that he destroyed the feng shui here or something, and some people were even more excited, and threw the dead fish in the pool into the yard of my house. ”
She pouted aggrievedly, as if she was very dissatisfied with her so-called relatives who did not look for the reason for the death of the fish, but instead took all their anger out to her own home.
A flash of inspiration flashed through my mind, and it seemed as if the four wires could be connected.
Trying to sort out the clues I had, I made this connection in my brain.
First of all, it was Shen Xue's family who repaired the fountain and moved the copper lion in the center.
Then, the fish in the entire Shen family's mansion began to die in large numbers, and the bronze lion in the courtyard of the ancestor also changed from looking backwards to bowing his head down on this night.
On the same day, Xu Xiongfeng also woke up from his illness of being crazy for twenty-seven years.
Could all of this happen because of the fountain?
I kept my head down, thinking.
At this time, a man walked in and said to everyone, "Ancestor wants to invite you to dinner. The man glanced at Shen Yufeng and said, "Yufeng should come with you too." ”
I reflexively stood up with them and walked out, bowing my head and accidentally hitting a soft back.
It was Shen Xue, she turned around and smiled at me inexplicably sweetly.